Friday, August 6, 2010

NTPC EXAM SYLLABUS

Discipline: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Electric Circuits and Fields: Network graph, KCL, KVL, node and mesh
analysis, transient response of dc and ac networks; sinusoidal steady-state
analysis, resonance, basic filter concepts; ideal current and voltage sources,
Thevenin’s, Norton’s and Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer
theorems, two-port networks, three phase circuits; Gauss Theorem, electric
field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge
distributions; Ampere’s and Biot-Savart’s laws; inductance; dielectrics;
capacitance.
Signals and Systems: Representation of continuous and discrete-time
signals; shifting and scaling operations; linear, time-invariant and causal
systems; Fourier series representation of continuous periodic signals;
sampling theorem; Fourier, Laplace and Z transforms.
Electrical Machines:
Single phase transformer – equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, tests,
regulation and efficiency; three phase transformers – connections, parallel
operation; auto-transformer; energy conversion principles; DC machines –
types, windings, generator characteristics, armature reaction and
commutation,nstarting and speed control of motors; three phase induction
motors – principles, types, performance characteristics, starting and speed
control; single phase induction motors; synchronous machines –
performance, regulation and parallel operation of generators, motor starting,
characteristics and applications; servo and stepper motors.
Power Systems: Basic power generation concepts; transmission line models
and performance; cable performance, insulation; corona and radio
interference; distribution systems; per-unit quantities; bus impedance and
admittance matrices; load flow; voltage control; power factor correction;
economic operation; symmetrical components; fault analysis; principles of
over-current, differential and distance protection; solid state relays and
digital protection; circuit breakers; system stability concepts, swing curves
and equal area criterion; HVDC transmission and FACTS concepts. Numeric
Relays.
Control Systems: Principles of feedback; transfer function; block diagrams;
steady-state errors; Routh and Niquist techniques; Bode plots; root loci; lag,
lead and lead-lag compensation; state space model; state transition matrix,
controllability and observability.
Electrical and Electronic Measurements: Bridges and potentiometers; PMMC,
moving iron, dynamometer and induction type instruments; measurement of
voltage, current, power, energy and power factor; instrument transformers;
digital voltmeters and multimeters; phase, time and frequency
measurement; Q-meters; oscilloscopes; error analysis.
Analog and Digital Electronics: Characteristics of diodes, BJT, FET; amplifiers
– biasing, equivalent circuit and frequency response; oscillators and
feedback amplifiers; operational amplifiers – characteristics and applications;
simple active filters; VCOs and timers; combinational and sequential logic
circuits; multiplexer; Schmitt trigger; multi-vibrators; sample and hold
circuits; A/D and D/A converters; 8-bit / 16-bit microprocessor basics,
architecture, programming and interfacing.
Power Electronics and Drives: SSemiconductor power diodes, transistors,
thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs – static characteristics and
principles of operation; triggering circuits; phase control rectifiers; bridge
converters – fully controlled and half controlled; principles of choppers and
inverters; basis concepts of adjustable speed dc and ac drives. Variable
speed control of AC machines.

NTPC PAPER 2007

NTPC PAPER : 2007 AT NEW DELHI :

It constitutes of 170 questions (120 Tech + 50 Aptitude)

Time : 2 Hrs

For tech part the syllabus is same as of the GATE and for Aptitude Part R.
S. Aggarwal is more than sufficient. As time duration is very short so time
management is very important.

APTITUDE SECTION :

For this section no special attention is required only rs aggarwal is enough and it also
has easy level of English section.

TECHNICAL SECTION :

For this section u have to b good in the basics. No hard question were
asked but u should b careful about your time . It has also some part of
very basic general knowledge. The questions were from following topics
10-12 Questions about microprocessor(8085)

3 Questions about RS232 standard

7-10 Questions of GK

4-6 Questions on opamp

10-15 Questions on Digital Communications

2-5 Questions on microwaves

15-20 Questions on Analog Devices

20-23 Questions on Digital Electronics (flip flops,gates,mux,no system etc)

1 Questions on ISO OSI Model

5-8 Questions on Control System

10-12 Questions on Signals and their Processing

AND SOME QUESTIONS ON PASSAGES & LIKE

1. Passage
2. Word meaning based (antonym and synonyms) fetter, fester, lucid, anomaly,
elucidate etc

3. Word analogy based

4. What is a tunnel diode

5. What is a Zener diode

6. Effect of + and – feedback on stability

7. Composition of gobar gas

8. Function of differential in the vehicle

9. Function of stack register

10. Fun of instruction pointer

11. Fun of rst6.5,7.5

12. Wht is an interrupt

13. Output vtg calc on op amp

14. How a pulse train can b generated using registers

15. Conversion of oct to hex,hex to binary

16. Fun of quantizer in pcm

17. Why fm is less prone to noise

18. Fun of limiter in detection of FM

19. What is envelop detector

20. Phase shift of 1/s^2

21. Signal limited to 1000 hz sampled at nyquist rate. quantizer has 128 level .calculate
the bit rate of the system.

22. 1.5 V battery supply same power to R1 and R2 separately(R1>R2).calc the internal
resistance of battery

23. A wire is cut in two halves. one half is again stretched to th twice of length .calc the
resistance

NTPC PAPERS

************* *******************NTPC PREVIOUS PAPERS :

Some Technical Questions from Previous NTPC Exam :

Technical Paper :

1. Given four unit-circle plots identify the one corresponding to a bandpass filter.

2. A 4 kHz signal is sampled at thrice the Nyquist rate and sent through a channel with
error ≤1%. Calc the bandwidth of the channel.
3. Given a two port network in the form of a T find o/p admittance in terms of y-
parameters.

4. Connect two 1Ω resistors in series, then connect two 1H inductors across one of the
resistors such that the ckt looks like a 1Ω resistor in series with a Π-section of a resistor
and two inductors. With the series resistance on the i/p side, calc the transfer function
of this ckt

5. Inverse laplace transform of 1/s2[d/ds(e-3s/s)]

6. Lower useful input limit of a transducer is determined by…

7. Air-cored inductors are used for low frequency/high frequency/equal frequency

operations.

8. Given 4 pole-zero plots identify which one corresponds to the driving point
impedance of a series resonant ckt.

9. Expression for δ(n): u(n)-u(n-1)/ u(n-1)-u(n+1)/ u(n)+u(n+1)/...

10. The sequence (2,3,4,3) is circularly even/circularly odd/circularly zero/both

circularly even and odd.

11. Z-transform of 3n u(n).

12. Match the following with their characteristics: LED/LCD/nixie tube/optical fibre.

13. Numerical on a photodiode: to calculate the responsivity/sensitivity when a specified

no of incident photons cause a specified no of electron generation.

14. Given an op-amp ckt obtain an expression for o/p voltage.

15. No. of encirclements made about the origin of the nyquist plot of the open loop TF:1/
[(s-1)(s+2)(s+3)].

16. For a radioactive sample which decays to 12.5% of its initial value in x days, the half
life is given by____

17. For a repeater in a PCM cable identify the correct sequence of actions amongst
threshold/equalization/etc.

18. O/P of a delta modulator when a ramp input is fed to it.

19. Steady state error with ramp i/p for a type-0 system.

20. Creeping occurs in energy meters bcoz….

21. Ultrasonic method of flow measurement cannot be used in liquids with air
bubbles/has less attenuation in air compared to liquid-identify the false statement (if
any) among these.

22. Major cause of losses in a fibre optic cable: dispersion/total internal

refraction/presence of core and cladding/…

23. Which layer in the OSI model is concerned with printer buffering,etc:
network/session/transport/…

24. Given some function F(jω) calc its inverse CTFT.

25. Relation between laplace and z-transform: s=z/ s=ln z/ s=( ln z/T) /…

26. Maxm and minm probability error among ASK,PSK,FSK,DPSK etc

27. Which of the following is a non linear modulation scheme: PAM/QAM/PCM/…

28. Match the following functions: e-t , e-t + et, sin(πt) with causal and stable system,
causal and unstable system, etc.

29. Given a ckt with a 50 Ω resistor in series between two voltage sources of 10 V and 5
V magnitude calc power delivered by 5 V source.

30. Laplace transform of e-3tu(t)+e2tu(-t).

31. Which photodetector has output affected by own intrinsic noise: PN/APD/PIN/all.

32. AC signal conditioning is used for inductive and capacitive/resistive/piezoelectric

transducers/all of the above.

33. When I mode is added to proportional control system stability increases/ decreases/
steady state performance deteriorates/damping increases.

34. Reset control is another name for integral/derivative/proportional/…. Control.

35. Time response of system having transfer function 625/(s2+25) will be of the form…

36. Given some transfer function calc the peak response time.

37. The nyquist sampling rate of the function [sin(at)/t]2 will be…

38. The feedback topology that results in increased i/p and o/p impedance is current
series/voltage series/current shunt voltage shunt.

39. Numerical on cardiac output calculation given heart rate and volume per beat.

40. In an ECG instrumentation amplifier the differential gain is provided by 1st

stage/2nd stage/mismatched resistors/output stage.

41. Repeat ques 40 above for the classic 3-op amp instrum amplifier.

42. EMG signals are of the order of mV/V/μV/…

43. Computer assisted tomography is used for…

44. Numerical on electrostatic instrument, to calculate deflection given spring constant,

torque etc.

45. To prevent loading of a ckt i/p impedance of a CRO should bee

high/low/inductive/capacitive.

46. Addition of a zero to a 2nd order underdamped system results in increase/decrease

of rise time and increase/decrease of peak overshoot.

47. For PI ctrl we obtain improved bandwidth/improved steady state performance/

worsened steady state performance/…

48. SNR of normal AM system is comparable/3 dB lower/3 dB higher/6 dB lower over

DSB-SC and SSB system.

49. Which is an effective measure of the noise related performance of an amplifier:

SNR/noise ratio/thermal noise/shot noise.

50. Given baseband signal freq and carrier freq calc which of the freq given will not be
present for conventional AM.

51. Distinction between FM and PM at high frequencies.

52. Which of these has the least propagation delay RTL/ECL/I2L/CMOS.

53 Switching speed of CMOS is affected/unaffected by changes in supply voltage.

54. Which of these provides a measure of heart rate P/QRS complex/T/none of these.

55. Given a ckt of a logarithmic amplifier you had to identify what ckt was it.

56. JFET can operate in depletion/enhancement/both/none of the above modes.

57. When a BJT operates in saturation the junctions are fwd biased/reverse biased/…
58. BIBO stability criterion implies that poles are within/outside/on the unit circle.

59. For faithful amplification of low amplitude signals the cut-off/active/saturation

regions of a transistor is used.

60. Lissajous pattern of a signal rotates 36 times per minute. if the oscillator frequency
is 560 kHz then the unknown freq is…

61. % resolution of a 10 bit ADC.

62. To obtain 10 mV resolution on 5 V range how many bit DAC is to be used..

63. Why is LCD preferred to LED.

64. How will 0.6973 be displayed on 10 V range of a 4 ½ digit multimeter.

65. Which of the following cannot be used for an automatic feedback temp ctrl system
thermocouple/thermometer/thermistor/IC sensor.

66. Y(n)=X(-n+3) is an example of a linear/non linear and shift variant/invariant

system.

67. The falling body method is used to determine viscosity/humidity/….

68. Which of these methods of viscosity measurement gives greatest accuracy falling
body method/rotating cylinder method/both/…

69. Some question on gas chromatography

70. A device having a rotor with 3 Y-connected coils and a stator is likely to be a
synchro/RVDT/control transformer/…

71. In a twisted ring counter the initial count is 1000. after the 4th clock pulse its state
will be….

72. A 240 kHz signal is given into a 3 bit binary ripple counter. The lowest o/p freq
obtainable is….

73. For parity bit checking which of the following gates can be used
XOR/NAND/OR/XNOR.

74. Why is a BJT called so..

75. Identify the expression for gauge factor of a strain gauge among the given options.
76. In a semiconductor strain gauge as tensile strain is applied what changes take place
in the n and p areas..

77. How does a radioactive level gauging system work…

78. A capacitive transducer measuring level works on the principle of change in distance
between plates/change in dielectric strength/…

79. For maximum power transfer in an AC circuit the condition to be satisfied is

ZL+ZS=0/XL+XS=0/none of these/….where l and s refers to load and source
respectively.

80. Find the transfer function from a block diagram.

81. Synchronous ctrs are preferred to asynchronous ctrs bcoz they are faster/glitches at
the output can be avoided/both/none of these.

82. The lissajous figure formed on an oscilloscope looks like the English figure of 8. if
the vertical channel input is 1 kHz the horizontal input freq is….

83. IE=IC for a transistor in saturation/cutoff/active/both saturation and active regions.

84. Reproducibility of measurements is called accuracy/precision/linearity/none of

these.

85. Which of these is not strictly a static characteristic

accuracy/precision/tolerance/linearity.

86. The shunt coil in a Q meter has resistance of the order of mΩ/Ω/kΩ/..

87. For measuring inductance of high Q coils the bridge used is Maxwell-wien/Schering/
…

88. Which of these measures inductance in terms of capacitance Maxwell and

hay/Maxwell and Schering/hay and Schering/…

89. In a flip-flop with preset and clear inputs both are applied simultaneously/clear is
cleared when preset is applied/preset is cleared when clear is applied/….

90. What happens when the RET instruction is encountered by 8085

91. A 1024*8 memory chip needs how many address lines…

92. What happens when the PUSH instruction is encountered by 8051.

93. In FM relation between no of sidebands w.r.t. modulating freq

94. Numerical on DPSK.

95. A multiplexer accepts input data and provides one output all the time/one output at
a time/many outputs at a time/many outputs all the time.

96. Pulse modulation is essentially a process of multiplexing/….

97. Wave shape is altered by clipper/clamper/voltage doubler/amplifier.

98. 4 signals of frequencies 100,100,200 and 400 Hz are sampled at nyquist rate and
sent through TDM on a channel.the bandwidth of the channel is…

99. Superposition can be applied to a ckt with initial conditions/non-linear ckt/…

100. Kelvin’s double bridge is used for the measurement of…

101. Which of these is not an active transducer thermocouple/solar cell/RTD/none of

these.

102. Oscillator using positive feedback has gain of 0/∞/undefined value/…

103. Wien bridge oscillator should initially have closed loop gain >3/<3/=3/…

104. Some question on gain margin and phase shift of a system.

105. Fourier series expansion of even function has sine terms only/cosine terms only/no
odd harmonics/…

106. Full wave rectifier gives clean dc o/p/dc o/p with small ripple/positive half and
inverted negative half of i/p as o/p.

107. Which of these values of ζ gives damped oscillations: 0/1/1.6/0.6

108. For a transformer of ratio 1:a and excited by a source V with impedances Z1 and Z2
on the primary and secondary side value of a for maxm power transfer should be..

109. Fourier transform of cos(ω0t) is…

110. At t=0 the step response of a 1st order system is….

111. 555 can be used as a monostable/astable/freq dividing ckt/all of these.

112. In a PT when the secondary is open ckted with the primary excited what will
happen.

113. If a system is marginally stable then the nature of oscillations will be…
114. Linear encoders mostly use straight binary/BCD/gray code.

115. For an accelerometer working in displacement mode the ratio of forcing freq to
natural freq should be…..

It may Contain questions with options like Both a) and b) . While solving this type of
Question we may get some difficulty, but practicing more we can overcome this
difficulty. All the best and do more Practice.

Aptitude Paper (70 Questions):

Most of the Aptitude questions we get straightforward. This Paper contains questions
involving profit and loss, ratio-proportion, DI from pie-charts, one RC passage and
other questions from verbal. Here we have to concern the Verbal questions, which will
be quite confusing, as none of the options seemed to fit the question.

NTPC Paper 2008

NTPC PAPER 2008 :

(NTPC Previous Exam Paper from the Year 2008)

* An ice block submerged in the water, if the ice melts level of water
(increase, decrease, remains same, none)

* Simply supported beam with w point load at the middle, max. bending
moment? (wl/4)

* Simply supported beam with UDL ,max.deflection (wl4/384EI)

* Cantilevel beam point load at tip,max.bending momemt comes at (end)

* When bearing life L10 represents (bearings 10%survive,bearings 10% fails,

none )

* For welding high carbon steels which type of flame is used (oxidizing,
carburizing, neutral, none)

* Arrange the following cutting tools in decreasing order of machining

hardness…Ceramics

* When P1 and P2 are the loads acting on bearings with life L1 and L2 then
L1/L2=? L1/L2={P2/P1}10/3

* Product simplification does not mean? (Product characterization)

* Which of the following process has the most scope in manufacturing?

CAD/CAM, CAM, CIM, All the above.

* Concurrent engineering means? (Manufacturing, designing, both, none)

* Which manufacturing process yields higher output and increases worker

productivity- (process layout, line+process, functional layout)

* 18-4-1 represents-, Tungsten-Cr-Vn

* For which material is negative allowance rovided-

(Graphite,steel,bronze,cast iron)

* What is the recrystallisation temperature of tin- (60,300,1000,none)

* What is the purpose of borax in soldering-

* Top gates are provided in which type of casting-(Shallow

casting,simple,complex,none)

* Which statement is true regarding simple gear trains-(i/p and o/p shafts
r fixed, each shaft has 2 gears, i/p & o/p shafts r moving)

* What is the purpose of normalizing- (Refining of grain structure)

* As the grain size is decreased-(Hardness increases,corrosion resistance

decreases,both)

* Isothermal gas is filled in a vessel at a pressure P and temperature T

then considering the compressible forces as the height increases
pressure ??(linearly increases linearly decreases exponentially increase )

* A bottle is filled with water and air and is tied to a string and is rotated
in horizontal direction. Then in which direction will air bubble travel?
(bottom,neck,uniformly spread)

* A empty bottle(in vaccum) filled with a gas at temp T and press P when
the pressure of bottle reaches P temperature of the gas is _? (T,T/K,TK)

* Bearing somerfield number _ with load on bearing?

(increases,decreases,no change)

* Critical radius for a sphere is-(2k/h)

* Critical radius exist for_ (spherical,cylindrical,both,slab)

* Convectional resistance/internal resistance is called (biot number)

* Nusselt no. is? (hl/k)

* EOQ=?

* Which statement is true regarding critical path method? (i only one

critical path exists for a network, more than one with same duration,)

* Shipment cost,inspection cost,storage cost comes under_ (carrying

cost ,holding cost,)

* Ischronous governers sensitivity is- (zero,infinite)

* Self energized brakes are-(friction moment acts in the direction of

application of force,opposite to the direction of force, does not need a force
to act ,)

* The ratio of heat capacities for evaporator and condenser is_

(Zero,infinity)

* When steam and air mixture with partial pressure 0.06 and 0.07 enters
a condenser what is the condenser pressure? (0.06,0.07,0.53,0.03)

* In pulverized burning of coal heat transfer from boiler to water occurs

through_( predominant radiation, convection, conduction,
conduction+convection)

* Rankine cycle efficiency for same parameters increases mostly

with_(reheat, regeneration, super heating )

* Ericson cycle with all reversible processes assume_(carnot

cycle,stirling,brayton

* Air delivery tank at outlet of reciprocating compressor is provided for_

(provide constant pressure, avoid cavitation, )

* High speed centrifugal pump has _? (vanes faces in forward direction

side,backward,radial vanes)

* Thermal efficiency in decreasing order_? (Otto cycle>dual cycle>diesel

cycle)

* When a 1000 K body comes in contact with atmosphere at 300K a loss of

9000 KJ heat is transferred. The net available energy transferred is_

* When entropy of a system increases_? (unavailable energy increases )

* Rolling is a process widely used for_?

* Tool nomenclature_?

* In francis turbine movement of steam?

* For low power consumption _? (rake angle should be increased /

decreased, nose angle increased/ decreased)

* Continuous chips occur in_? (High speeds,low speeds,both,none)

* Primary forces in a reciprocating engine_? (fully balanced, partially

balanced, completely unbalanced, none)

* In proximate analysis pyrogallol is used for analysis of which element_?

(nitrogen,oxygen)

* Sulphur content in fuel greatly affects_? (corrosion)

* Heat transfer through radiation can be increased by_? (decreasing

emissivity and increases temperature of hot body)

* Which theory of failure clearly explains the failure in case of ductile

material? (Maximun shear stress theory or Guests or trescas theory)

When a material is subjected to continuous cycles which limit is being

verified? (Endurance limit)

Where is stress concentration maximum? (notches, stress reducing

through cuts)

* Power transmitted through a belt drive_? P(T2-T1)

* According to Eulers theory crippling or buckling load is ____ (Wcr =
Cπ2EI/l2)

* During sensible heating, specific humidity_? (remains constant)

* COP of a refrigerator is _? (greater than 1 )

* The maximum temperature in a refrigeration cycle is_? (less

than/greater than/equal to critical temperature)

* The pressure at the throat of the nozzle_? (maximum,min)

* For a statically determinate set of forces for equilibrium_? (∑ f(X), f(Y),

f(Z)=0,∑M=0)

* For a statically determinate set of forces- (there r as many equations as

the no. of unknowns)

* 1-2-3 analysis is used for_? (1.break even analysis, ??)

* A problem on mean time of service something like a salesman has a

rating of 120. considering 10% allowance time calculate the time required
to serve 120?

* A problem n determining time in a queue?

* Energy equation for a laminar flow is _? (Uniform and steady ,non

uniform and unsteady)

* Undercuts in welding occurs due to_? (low welding current, high

welding current)

* Work holding equipment in shearing?

* At the centre of a nozzle _? (Mach no<1 >=1;=1)

NTPC PAPER ON 4th MAY KOLKATA

Technical ( control and instrumentation):

1. expression for ?(n): u(n)-u(n-1)/ u(n-1)-u(n+1)/ u(n)+u(n+1)/…

2. numerical on a photodiode: to calculate the responsively/sensitivity when a specified no of
incident photons cause a specified no of electron generation.

3. for a radioactive sample which decays to 12.5% of its initial value in x days, the half life is
given by..

4. connect two 1? resistors in series, then connect two 1H inductors across one of the resistors
such that the ckt looks like a 1? resistor in series with a ?-section of a resistor and two inductors.
With the series resistance on the i/p side, calc the transfer function of this ckt

5. AC signal conditioning is used for inductive and capacitive/resistive/piezoelectric

transducers/all of the above.

6. lower useful input limit of a transducer is determined by

7. air-cored inductors are used for low frequency/high frequency/equal frequency operations.

8. given 4 pole-zero plots identify which one corresponds to the driving point impedance of a
series resonant ckt.

9. given four unit-circle plots identify the one corresponding to a bandpass filter.

10. the sequence (2,3,4,3) is circularly even/circularly odd/circularly zero/both circularly even
and odd.

11. z-transform of 3n u(n).

12. match the following with their characteristics: LED/LCD/nixie tube/optical fibre.

13. a 4 kHz signal is sampled at thrice the Nyquist rate and sent through a channel with error ?
1%. Calc the bandwidth of the channel.

14. given an op-amp ckt obtain an expression for o/p voltage.

15. no. of encirclements made about the origin of the nyquist plot of the open loop TF:1/[(s-1)
(s+2)(s+3)].

16. given a two port network in the form of a T find o/p admittance in terms of y-parameters.

17. for a repeater in a PCM cable identify the correct sequence of actions amongst
threshold/equalization/etc.

18. o/p of a delta modulator when a ramp input is fed to it.

19. steady state error with ramp i/p for a type-0 system.
20. creeping occurs in energy meters bcoz.

21. ultrasonic method of flow measurement cannot be used in liquids with air bubbles/has less
attenuation in air compared to liquid-identify the false statement (if any) among these.

22. major cause of losses in a fibre optic cable: dispersion/total internal refraction/presence of
core and cladding/

23. which layer in the OSI model is concerned with printer buffering,etc:
network/session/transport/

24. given some function F(j?) calc its inverse CTFT.

25. relation between laplace and z-transform: s=z/ s=ln z/ s=( ln z/T) /

26. maxm and minm probability error among ASK,PSK,FSK,DPSK etc

27. which of the following is a non linear modulation scheme: PAM/QAM/PCM/

28. match the following functions: e-t , e-t + et, sin(?t) with causal and stable system, causal and
unstable system, etc.

29. given a ckt with a 50 ? resistor in series between two voltage sources of 10 V and 5 V
magnitude calc power delivered by 5 V source.

30. laplace transform of e-3tu(t)+e2tu(-t).

31. which photodetector has output affected by own intrinsic noise: PN/APD/PIN/all.

32. inverse laplace transform of 1/s2[d/ds(e-3s/s)]

33. when I mode is added to proportional control system stability increases/ decreases/ steady
state performance deteriorates/damping increases.

34. reset control is another name for integral/derivative/proportional/. Control.

35. time response of system having transfer function 625/(s2+25) will be of the form

36. given some transfer function calc the peak response time.

37. the nyquist sampling rate of the function [sin(at)/t]2 will be

38. the feedback topology that results in increased i/p and o/p impedance is current series/voltage
series/current shunt voltage shunt.

39. numerical on cardiac output calculation given heart rate and volume per beat.
40. in an ECG instrumentation amplifier the differential gain is provided by 1st stage/2nd
stage/mismatched resistors/output stage.

41. repeat ques 40 above for the classic 3-op amp instrum amplifier.

42. EMG signals are of the order of mV/V/?V/

43. computer assisted tomography is used for

44. numerical on electrostatic instrument, to calculate deflection given spring constant, torque
etc.

45. to prevent loading of a ckt i/p impedance of a CRO should bee high/low/inductive/capacitive.

46. addition of a zero to a 2nd order underdamped system results in increase/decrease of rise
time and increase/decrease of peak overshoot.

47. for PI ctrl we obtain improved bandwidth/improved steady state performance/ worsened
steady state performance/

48. SNR of normal AM system is comparable/3 dB lower/3 dB higher/6 dB lower over DSB-SC
and SSB system.

49. which is an effective measure of the noise related performance of an amplifier: SNR/noise
ratio/thermal noise/shot noise.

50. given baseband signal freq and carrier freq calc which of the freq given will not be present
for conventional AM.

51. distinction between FM and PM at high frequencies.

52. which of these has the least propagation delay RTL/ECL/I2L/CMOS.

53 switching speed of CMOS is affected/unaffected by changes in supply voltage.

54. which of these provides a measure of heart rate P/QRS complex/T/none of these.

55. given a ckt of a logarithmic amplifier you had to identify what ckt was it.

56. JFET can operate in depletion/enhancement/both/none of the above modes.

57. when a BJT operates in saturation the junctions are fwd biased/reverse biased/

58. BIBO stability criterion implies that poles are within/outside/on the unit circle.
59. for faithful amplification of low amplitude signals the cut-off/active/saturation regions of a
transistor is used.

60. lissajous pattern of a signal rotates 36 times per minute. if the oscillator frequency is 560 kHz
then the unknown freq is

61. % resolution of a 10 bit ADC.

62. to obtain 10 mV resolution on 5 V range how many bit DAC is to be used..

63. why is LCD preferred to LED.

64. how will 0.6973 be displayed on 10 V range of a 4 digit multimeter.

65. which of the following cannot be used for an automatic feedback temp ctrl system
thermocouple/thermometer/thermistor/IC sensor.

66. y(n)=x(-n+3) is an example of a linear/non linear and shift variant/invariant system.

67. the falling body method is used to determine viscosity/humidity/.

68. which of these methods of viscosity measurement gives greatest accuracy falling body
method/rotating cylinder method/both/

69. some question on gas chromatography

70.a device having a rotor with 3 Y-connected coils and a stator is likely to be a
synchro/RVDT/control transformer/

71. in a twisted ring counter the initial count is 1000. after the 4th clock pulse its state will be.

72. a 240 kHz signal is given into a 3 bit binary ripple counter. The lowest o/p freq obtainable is.

73. for parity bit checking which of the following gates can be used XOR/NAND/OR/XNOR.

74. why is a BJT called so..

75. identify the expression for gauge factor of a strain gauge among the given options.

76. in a semiconductor strain gauge as tensile strain is applied what changes take place in the n
and p areas..

77. how does a radioactive level gauging system work

78. a capacitive transducer measuring level works on the principle of change in distance between
plates/change in dielectric strength/
79. for maximum power transfer in an AC circuit the condition to be satisfied is
ZL+ZS=0/XL+XS=0/none of these/.where l and s refers to load and source resp.

80. find the transfer function from a block diagram.

81. synchronous ctrs are preferred to asynchronous ctrs bcoz they are faster/glitches at the output
can be avoided/both/none of these.

82. the lissajous figure formed on an oscilloscope looks like the English figure of 8. if the
vertical channel input is 1 kHz the horizontal input freq is.

83. IE=IC for a transistor in saturation/cutoff/active/both saturation and active regions.

84. reproducibility of measurements is called accuracy/precision/linearity/none of these.

85. which of these is not strictly a static characteristic accuracy/precision/tolerance/linearity.

86. the shunt coil in a Q meter has resistance of the order of m?/?/k?/..

87. for measuring inductance of high Q coils the bridge used is Maxwell-wien/Schering/

88. which of these measures inductance in terms of capacitance Maxwell and hay/Maxwell and
Schering/hay and Schering/

89. in a flip-flop with preset and clear inputs both are applied simultaneously/clear is cleared
when preset is applied/preset is cleared when clear is applied/.

90. what happens when the RET instruction is encountered by 8085

91. a 1024*8 memory chip needs how many address lines

92. what happens when the PUSH instruction is encountered by 8051.

93. in FM relation between no of sidebands w.r.t. modulating freq

94. numerical on DPSK.

95. a multiplexer accepts input data and provides one output all the time/one output at a
time/many outputs at a time/many outputs all the time.

96. pulse modulation is essentially a process of multiplexing/.

97. wave shape is altered by clipper/clamper/voltage doubler/amplifier.

98. 4 signals of frequencies 100,100,200 and 400 Hz are sampled at nyquist rate and sent through
TDM on a channel.the bandwidth of the channel is
99. superposition can be applied to a ckt with initial conditions/non-linear ckt/

100. Kelvin’s double bridge is used for the measurement of

101. Which of these is not an active transducer thermocouple/solar cell/RTD/none of these.

102. oscillator using positive feedback has gain of 0/?/undefined value/

103. Wien bridge oscillator should initially have closed loop gain >3/<3/=3/

104. Some question on gain margin and phase shift of a system.

105. Fourier series expansion of even function has sine terms only/cosine terms only/no odd
harmonics/

106. full wave rectifier gives clean dc o/p/dc o/p with small ripple/positive half and inverted
negative half of i/p as o/p.

107. Which of these values of ? gives damped oscillations: 0/1/1.6/0.6

108. for a transformer of ratio 1:a and excited by a source V with impedances Z1 and Z2 on the
primary and secondary side value of a for maxm power transfer should be..

109. Fourier transform of cos(?0t) is

110. at t=0 the step response of a 1st order system is.

111. 555 can be used as a monostable/astable/freq dividing ckt/all of these.

112. in a PT when the secondary is open ckted with the primary excited what will happen.

113. if a system is marginally stable then the nature of oscillations will be

114. linear encoders mostly use straight binary/BCD/gray code.

115. for an accelerometer working in displacement mode the ratio of forcing freq to natural freq
should be..

Many questions contained options which were repeated, e.g. Both a) and b) were 5.

Aptitude (70 questions):

Most of the questions were straightforward. There were questions involving profit and loss,
ratio-proportion, DI from pie-charts, one RC passage and other questions from verbal. The ones
involving verbal were quite confusing, as none of the options seemed to fit the question e.g. there
were some questions in which you had to find the word farthest in meaning to a given word. The
word given was judicious, and the options were illegal, obscure, case and some other. The same
was the case with the other four questions of this sort.

Overall it was an ok sort of paper, though the negligible weightage given to instrumentation
related questions was somewhat surprising.